Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He trusts me , we got on well in the old days . |
| 2 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 3 | The broad gauge lived on only in the Paddington to Penzance expresses , corresponding goods trains and services on feeder lines . |
| 4 | Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages . |
| 5 | Of all the cities in the north , Milan was the one that expanded most rapidly in the period up to 1100 . |
| 6 | That succeeded only partially in the setting , but the costumes were attractive . |
| 7 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 8 | Beyond it lay Nubia , and beyond that the Land of Punt , an almost legendary region which the Egyptians penetrated only briefly in the imperial years of the New Kingdom . |
| 9 | SustainAbility was born , to spawn the Green Consumer Guide ( 300,000 copies sold so far in the UK ) ; the consultancy , offering environmental audits of business resources ; and of course ; success . |
| 10 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 11 | Probability of life on a randomly selected planet if life arose only once in the universe . |
| 12 | A key element in these processes of subjugation and domination has been the classifying and defining of racial and sexual difference , through the use of the photographic anthropological gaze ( referenced most recently in the Benetton advertising campaigns ) , the photograph within these discourses is posited as a document of empirical truth . |
| 13 | It transpired rather late in the planning of Overlord that what had been thought to be beaches of hard sand actually had bands of exposed clay . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , there was this almighty bang an' the bleedin' fing stopped dead right in the middle o' the music . |
| 15 | For Henry Thomas had left Tredegar for railway employment in Swindon and one of his sons , the Uncle Harry who features in the Swindon holidays described so lovingly in The Childhood of Edward Thomas , was a fitter at the Swindon GWR works until he set sail for South Africa in 1891 . |
| 16 | These chaps , good blokes who 've spent all their lives running businesses , believed the government manifesto and thought that if they shouted loud enough in the local paper , Whitehall would crumble and right would prevail . |
| 17 | A similar displacement occurred much earlier in the New World where the enconomienda system was established in Latin America and a plantation economy in the Caribbean islands , both of which suddenly displaced local cultivators . |
| 18 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 19 | The detailed design of farm buildings changed only gradually in the past , but the rate and type of change is now very much quicker as a result of the significant alterations in farming methods which have occurred since World Wall II — primarily greatly increased mechanisation . |
| 20 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 21 | Assessment of both performance and educational achievement could benefit senior house officers provided that it occurred sufficiently early in the post to enable improvements to be made . |
| 22 | The crisis occurred not just in the old industries such as steel and shipbuilding but in artificial fibres , electrical goods and , par excellence , motor manufacture . |
| 23 | In the last week of January violence erupted once again in the autonomous ( Serbian ) province of Kosovo . |
| 24 | Likewise , if the explosion occurred early enough in the Solar System 's history , the shell of gases could long since have dissipated . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that recurring or increasing alcohol abuse played any significant role in rebleeding as surgical failure occurred more frequently in the non-alcoholic patients ( seven of 27 v six of 16 alcoholics ) . |
| 26 | At dawn the death toll rose still further in the worst disaster since 1952 , when 13 people were killed after a car left the track at Weyberg , Rhineland , Germany . |
| 27 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 28 | We ventured out only in the mornings and the evenings when the sun was low and the shadows of the tall robed figures stretched to impossible lengths across the sands . |
| 29 | Attacks on some of Iran 's smaller towns and cities occurred comparatively early in the war , but apart from the first two days , it is not clear when either side decided to strike at population centres as a strategic option . |
| 30 | On 20 January 1920 a detachment of Polish soldiers in greatcoats and four-cornered caps waded out knee-deep in the icy Baltic . |